One Piece (Wanpi-su) is a manga and anime series created by manga
artist Eiichiro Oda. One Piece focuses on a ragtag crew of pirates
called Straw Hat Pirates led by Captain Monkey D. Luffy. Luffy's
greatest ambition is to obtain the world's ultimate treasure, One
Piece, and become Pirate King.The manga began its serial run in issue #34 of Shueisha's Weekly
Shonen Jump magazine on August 4, 1997, while the anime adaptation
produced by Toei Animation premiered on Fuji TV on October 20, 1999.
Eiichiro Oda originally planned One Piece to last five years,[1] and he
had already planned out the ending; the story has continued far beyond
his expectations, and its popularity has swelled to enormous
proportions.One Piece is the fourth highest selling manga in the history of
Weekly Shonen Jump,[2] and is currently Japan's most popular and
all-time third-best-selling Weekly Shonen Jump title. Volume 24 of the
One Piece manga was the highest selling Japanese novel of all time,
prior to the publication of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince